Joey Polk missed out on the record books with his catch because he and his crew did not return the shark to the wild. Instead feeding it to 200 people at a community feast. The international land based shark fishing association requires sharks be released.

Joey Polk missed out on the record books with his catch because he and his crew did not return the shark to the wild. Instead feeding it to 200 people at a community feast. The international land based

Aerial footage showed more than a hundred sharks gathering off Gulf resorts in Alabama. Officials said they did not know what kind of sharks they were suggesting they could be Sand bar, Black Tip or Bull sharks. less

Aerial footage showed more than a hundred sharks gathering off Gulf resorts in Alabama. Officials said they did not know what kind of sharks they were suggesting they could be Sand bar, Black Tip or Bull ... more

Fisherman Noe Campus says he delivered around 30 shark pups after he got a hammerhead ashore and discovered a huge hole in her belly. He says he thinks she was bitten by another shark while she was on his line.

Fisherman Noe Campus says he delivered around 30 shark pups after he got a hammerhead ashore and discovered a huge hole in her belly. He says he thinks she was biten by another shark while she was on his line.

Fisherman Noe Campus says he delivered around 30 shark pups after he got a hammerhead ashore and discovered a huge hole in her belly. He says he thinks she was biten by another shark while she was on his line.

Photo: From Video By Ashley Violet

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Fisherman Noe Campus says he delivered around 30 shark pups after he got a hammerhead ashore and discovered a huge hole in her belly. He says he thinks she was biten by another shark while she was on his line.

Fisherman Noe Campus says he delivered around 30 shark pups after he got a hammerhead ashore and discovered a huge hole in her belly. He says he thinks she was biten by another shark while she was on his line.

Photo: From Video By Ashley Violet

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Fisherman Noe Campus says he delivered around 30 shark pups after he got a hammerhead ashore and discovered a huge hole in her belly. He says he thinks she was biten by another shark while she was on his line.

Fisherman Noe Campus says he delivered around 30 shark pups after he got a hammerhead ashore and discovered a huge hole in her belly. He says he thinks she was biten by another shark while she was on his line.

Divers spotted the Great White ominously swimming by during a trip out 80 miles off the Florida coast in April.

Photo: Dane Kelly

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Divers spotted the Great White ominously swimming by during a trip out 80 miles off the Florida coast.

Divers spotted the Great White ominously swimming by during a trip out 80 miles off the Florida coast.

Photo: Dane Kelly

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Divers spotted the Great White ominously swimming by during a trip out 80 miles off the Florida coast.

Divers spotted the Great White ominously swimming by during a trip out 80 miles off the Florida coast.

Photo: Dane Kelly

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This man's Gulf Whale Shark ride was legal .. but not advised

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A Gulf charter captain who hitched the ride of his life on the back of a whale shark earlier this month did not break the law, despite the giant fish's status as a protected species.

Jamie Robert Bostwick posted a video of his visit with the enormous shark off Venice, Florida on his Facebook page June 6. He said swimming with a whale shark had been the No. 1 thing on his "bucket list" of things to do before he died.

"It basically came right to us," Bostwick told local station WSTP, "It was just as curious about us as we were about him ... they're such a majestic animal," he said.